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The Catch a Fire was a concert tour organised to support the album Catch a Fire by The Wailers (Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer).
The tour began at the Coleman Club in Nottingham, England, on 27 April 1973, as the first show in Peckham had been cancelled before, and ended with four shows at Max's Kansas City in New York City, in late July. In October they performed as an opening act for the Atlee Yeager Band and Sly and the Family Stone (who served as the headliners), in a figure skating hall in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The majority of the audience thought The Wailers, an American rock band, would perform, but they were surprised seeing a Jamaican band; Mark Paul, the drummer of the Atlee Yeager Band said that they looked like biblical figures from the Old Testament. Bunny Wailer refused to participate in the second tour leg in the United States and was replaced by Joe Higgs.
Unlike on later tours and although very little is publicly known yet about the concert setlist of the Catch a Fire Tour, the setlist greatly varied on almost every show. What can be said from the known recordings is that:
Catch a Fire, released on 13 April 1973, is the fifth album by Jamaican reggae band The Wailers, and the first the band released on Island Records. After touring and recording in the United Kingdom with Johnny Nash, Nash's departure to the United States left the band without enough money to return home; they approached producer Chris Blackwell, who agreed to advance the Wailers money for an album and paid their fares back to Jamaica, where they recorded Catch a Fire. The album features nine songs, two of which were written by Peter Tosh and the rest by Bob Marley. After Marley's return to London to present the tapes to Blackwell, the producer reworked the tracks with contributions by Muscle Shoals session musician Wayne Perkins, who played guitar on two overdubbed tracks.
The album's supporting concert tour throughout England and the United States helped establish the band as international stars. Catch a Fire peaked at number 171 and number 51 on Billboard's 200 and Black Albums charts, respectively. The album has received critical acclaim, including being listed at number 126 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, the second highest placement of the five Bob Marley albums on the list, after the posthumous compilation album Legend. It is also regarded as one of the top reggae albums of all time.
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First you gotta roll that shit.
Then you gotta light that shit.
Then you gotta pass that shit.
Get high.
I wake up to find a seed.
I plant her in the ground.
My harvest rise.
I thank the the skies.
No worries for my crown.
Give U.S. the Green.
Show me the Queen.
She's the one you want.
The people cry.
I thank the sky.
Who wants to smoke a blunt.
She smells so sweet she'll make you weak.
She smells so good she'll makes you weak.
She smells so sweet she'll make you weak.
She smells so sweet she'll make you weak.
Is she all you'll ever need?
White widows into my bowl.
That's how I spell relief.
I catch a fire burn away.
I got to hail the leaf.
Northern lights. That pale blue sky. Come burn me in the streets.
That sour deiz whoa baby please & don't you ever leave.
Roll it up. Pack it up. Burn me as you please.
My harvest rise. I thank the skies. We got to burn a leaf.
I wake up to find a seed. I plant her in the ground.
My harvest rise. I thank the sky. We're burning up the town.
I get high...I get stoned. Let's go!
And we're so lifted.
It heals your mind.
She smells so sweet she'll make you weak.
She smells so sweet she'll make you weak.
Smells so sweet it makes you weak.
She is all that makes you weak.